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Elon Musk speaking at Trump a campaign rally

Democrats should embrace the absurdity, push for Elon Musk to become Speaker of the House

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, right, escorts Elon Musk as he arrives for a House Republicans Conference meeting on Nov. 13, 2024.
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Mike Johnson’s shutdown texts with Elon Musk reveal a new Gilded Age

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Josh Hawley speaks to reporters
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Josh Hawley and John Kennedy derail Senate hearing on gambling with anti-trans bigotry

Ja'han Jones
Mike Johnson speaks with Donald Trump listening in the background
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The spending deal's cause of death doesn't bode well for the next four years

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Trump makes his first international trip since his election win, preparing for a day of intense diplomacy before attending the reopening ceremony for the Notre Dame cathedral restored after the 2019 fire.
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Why Trump is suddenly fixated on getting rid of the debt ceiling

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Split of Charlie Sykes and Liz Cheney

What Trump is trying to achieve by going after Liz Cheney

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Aaron Rodgers in Aaron Rodgers: Enigma.
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Fani Willis looks on during a hearing
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What happens next in Trump's GA election case after court disqualifies Fani Willis?

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Teacher Erin West and student Rubi Patricia Vergara.

Officials identify student and teacher killed in Wisconsin school shooting

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President-elect Donald Trump

TikTok exec and investors try to charm Trump as potential ban looms

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Gaetz recalls 'embarrassing' actions but denies wrongdoing ahead of ethics report release

Hayley Miller

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The U.S. stands by as Israel expands settlements in occupied Golan Heights

Elon Musk threatens GOP senators to back Trump's Cabinet picks, or else

Trump and his allies are setting the stage for a historic power grab

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump.
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President-elect Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago resort on Dec. 16, 2024 in Palm Beach, Fla.

HARDSHIP DELIVERY

Trump's latest musings about the Postal Service could hurt his supporters most

Paul Waldman
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Mike Johnson, left, and Hakeem Jeffries

HOLIDAY TRADITION

Why Democrats are hoping for a gift from Mike Johnson this Christmas

Hayes Brown
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President-elect Donald Trump during his swearing-in ceremony at the US Capitol on Jan. 20, 2017 in Washington, DC.

INFLUENCE-PEDDLING

Tech tycoons’ Trump inauguration donation spree highlights a corrupt tradition hiding in plain sight

Zeeshan Aleem
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Ken Paxton

'SHIELD LAWS'

Texas AG Ken Paxton just broke a fragile abortion truce between states

Mary Ziegler
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A NOT SO WONDERFUL IDEA

Trump advisers Musk and Ramaswamy want to eliminate the FDIC. That makes zero sense.

Ryan Teague Beckwith
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North Carolina state Capitol.

weak spot

The silver lining underlying North Carolina Republicans’ power grab

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The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters building in Washington, DC. on Sept. 15, 2024.

MORE FRICTION

Why a group of Republicans want your 2025 tax filing season to be even more painful

Hayes Brown
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TESTIMONY SERVICE

Jamie Foxx's disturbing certainty about the cause of his 'mystery illness'

Jarvis DeBerry
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Phil Murphy

PLAYING OFFENSE

New Jersey just showed blue states how to outmaneuver their conservative counterparts

Evette Dionne
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Joe Biden.

GO BIG BEFORE GOING HOME

Biden must act to stop the greatest mass miscarriage of justice in American history

Jay Michaelson

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